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What Goes on in Pharrell's Mind
Pharrell Williams has some serious bling. He has two "proper rings": One is a 26carat canary yellow Ashercut diamond, and the other is a 23carat white Ashercut diamond. These are not "going to the club" rings, he said, but are reserved for more special occasions.
Williams, one of the hottest producers in hiphop, also opts for the fashionable/functional. He is currently waiting for famed jeweler to the stars Jacob the Jeweler to finish his goldplated BlackBerry.
Did Williams ever see himself donning these kinds of accessories, let alone becoming the male face of luxury designer Louis Vuitton, when he was a kid growing up in a Virginia Beach, Va., housing project?
Now, at 33 years old, he is one of the most soughtafter producers in the music industry. He hopes to push the limits of music even further with his first solo album, "In My Mind," which dropped last week.
The album, which has received mixed and downright negative reviews from Rolling Stone and The New York Times, comes from a place that Williams calls "left of center."
Williams sees this latest venture as purely artistic and experimental. The purpose of this muchanticipated and muchdelayed album is not to make money, although that would be nice, but to break some ground, he said.
"It's meant to sort of let people in and let my friends into my mind," he said. "It's kind of like the director's cut for the first chapter of my career."
When he was 9, his family moved from the projects to a modest suburban home that he said was often filled with the sounds of soul music by Earth, Wind and Fire, and the Jackson Five. A biker group called the Renegades lived across the street and exposed Williams to rock.
His musical palette craved diversity from an early age, and he found a kindred spirit in Chad Hugo, whom he met in junior high. The two later formed the Neptunes production company.
Their big break came when they were discovered by Teddy Riley, the producer who'd created the "new jack swing" style of hiphop. Riley enlisted Williams to write a verse in the 1992 rap hit "Rump Shaker " by Riley's group, WreckxNEffect.
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"The whole Neptunes sound was a really different sound when they first started producing," Leah Rose, music editor of the hiphop magazine XXL said. "It has more of an '80s new wave feel great club music."
Williams emerged to become the more visible of the two. Using his signature raspy falsetto, he sang the hook on JayZ's "I Just Want to Love You" and on Snoop Dogg's "Beautiful." And more and more, he appears in the videos alongside rappers and voluptuous female dancers.
He also fronted the rockpunk hiphop band he formed with Hugo and their friend Shae Thornton, NERD, which stands for No One Ever Really Dies. The band, Williams told Rolling Stone last year, is now "dead" due to disputes with the label, Virgin Records.
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